From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-01-14T15:26:18+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby Thread in CGI application?

On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 06:02:13 +0100, Stefan Kaes <skaes@gmx.net> wrote:

> David Vallner wrote:
>> 2. On a multiple CPU system, where algorithms used in processing the  
>> request might benefit from parallelism running multiple processors.  
>> Though then again, you probably wouldn't do CPU-intensive operations as  
>> these algorithms tend to be in Ruby anyway. As more realistic examples,  
>> asynchronous database / remote calls come to mind if you want to  
>> implement your own timeout policy to those to handle badly written  
>> third party libraries graciously to prevent your application from  
>> hanging up.
> Currently you won't benefit from multiple CPUs as Ruby doesn't use  
> native threads.
>
> -- stefan
>


Slipped my mind. I was talking in general anyway. And doesn't the pthread  
binding let you use native threads? (Didn't really do anything with it  
himself)

David Vallner